Re: It just.. won't load?





In news:DA8D33D8-951A-437C-9EDB-1ABFE21D29CC@xxxxxxxxxxxxx,
Beep <Beep@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> typed:
> I know this is terribly vague, but I have no other way to explain it:
>
> Some time ago, I tried to boot my computer up and found that I got a
> blue screen in the middle of it loading Win2k professional. I read it
> once over, it said that if this was my first time getting this (stop)
> error message (I didn't think to write it down then), I should simply
> restart. I did, I got the message again. It told me that there was
> something wrong with the hard disk, and that I should check it for
> viruses or (somehow) run chkdsk /f (I don't even know what that is).
> I went into the bios, nothing seemed wrong.
>
> Now, it will load 'til the Win2k logo, and simply won't load any
> further. The progress bar doesn't even show up, it's all blank at the
> bottom. Any suggestions?

Do you have good backups of your data, just in case you can't fix them via
chkdsk?

You might boot from your Win2k CD and try going into the recovery console to
run chkdsk...

http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;Q229716

You probably want to run chkdsk /p /r (see the article for help).



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